The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) recently deployed a scientific visualization web application that made use of a new Virtual Machine (VM) infrastructure at the Center. The team used tools like Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMware's vSphere, Puppet, Fabric, and Jenkins to automate the creation and provisioning of VMs in various environments (local workstations, integration, QA, staging, and production). In this talk we will discuss why VMs were useful for this project, what tools we used, and ideas for using VMs on future projects. Finally, we will show how to create a simple VM and deploy a web application to it.